Rue bolus, and “abbas” on tin against the scorpion
An easy-to-get antipathic: of the same. Twenty leaves of rue, two royal walnuts, one grain of salt, two dried figs: giving these first to a fasting horse in a drench, you will make it be harmed by no drug or any other venomous thing. And toward not being bitten by a scorpion, write on a tin plate: “abbas,” and bind this around the neck of the animal.
Greek
3.23 Ἀντιπαθὲς εὐπόριστον· τοῦ αὐτοῦ Πηγάνου φύλλα κʹ, κάρυα βασιλικὰ βʹ, ἁλὸς χόνδρον αʹ, ἰσχάδας βʹ νήστει ἵππῳ προδιδοὺς ἐν ἐγχυματισμῷ ὑπ' οὐδενὸς φαρμάκου ἢ ἄλλου τινὸς ἰοβόλου κακωθήσεσθαι ἐργάσῃ. Εἰς δὲ τὸ μὴ δηχθῆναι ὑπὸ σκορπίου εἰς κασσιτέρινον πέταλον ἐπίγραψον· «ἀββάς», καὶ περιδέσμει τοῦτο τῷ τραχήλῳ τοῦ ζῴου.
About this text
Julius Africanus, Cesti (Embroidered Girdles): a miscellany of history, science, and craft, in the surviving fragments — books 7, 2, and 3 in full, with parts of books 4, 8, 9, and 13, and the colophon of Cestus 18. The older English translates his letters only. The book-2 table of contents and a book-7 appendix are not in this volume.
New English from locked PG 10 / Khazarzar Greek of the Cesti fragmenta through 9.5. Earlier lemma-led scaffold English was discarded. Book-2 pinax and book-7 appendix held. This lock is exhausted.
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Witnesses
- Copy-text PG 10 Cesti fragmenta (Khazarzar) (Greek)
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